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To: Pelham

One point is “They controlled between 60 and 90 percent of the U.S. trade in African slaves.”


So? Men are evil whether black, white or purple..............


185 posted on 03/29/2012 6:58:17 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Lord, save me from some conservatives, they don't understand history any better than liberals.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

I posted the article in response to this claim:

“Most slave traders weren’t “Yankees” but British, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, or French, and most of the slaves who came to the 13 colonies or the United States came on their ships.”

The article maintains that the Rhode Island/ New England traders controlled 60-90% of the American slave trade.


187 posted on 03/29/2012 8:56:18 AM PDT by Pelham (Marco Rubio, la raza trojan horse.)
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